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Jj I'. FORTH. LAGE CURTAIN.

Patented Deo. v22, 1885.

N, PETERS. P|l0luLill\ng|uphnr, Washinglon, DA CV UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN FREDERICK FORTH, OF NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND.

LACE CURTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,002, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed July 6, 1885. Serial No. 170,789. (No model.) Patented in England June 15, 1885, No. 7,266.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN FREDERICK FORTH, lace-manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Nottingham, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lace Curtains, (for which Iobtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, dated June 15, 1885, No. 7,266,) of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention consists in a lace curtain having a valance and a cloth band or bauds provided with holes for the insertion of a rod or cord, as will be more fully hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawing, the figure represents a face View of a lace curtain with one half of the valance turned down and the other half turned up to expose the perforated cloth band or bands. The curtain is provided adjacent to its upper end with a band or bands, A, of cloth-work, across the whole width. This band has holes B formed in it as the curtain is made. The remainder is made with a valance, C, of any desired pattern. The curtain is suspended by means of a cord or a rod, D, passed through the openings B, as shown, the ends of said cord or rod being attached to the window-frame in any convenient manner. Upon such curtain having a cord or rod threaded alternately from the front and from the back through the holes in the cloth band, it may be gathered upon the cord or rod so as to fit any window of less than its own width, the valance C being turned down on either side. I may provide one or two or more bands of clothwork, A A, having holes B B, as described. In the drawing only two such bands are shown. Above such bands I complete the curtain by forming an inverted valance, C. Upon the curtain being folded across midway between the bands the holes in each band will be opposite each other, and upon a cord or rod being threaded through both rows of holes the portion forming the valance will fall downover the curtain, the folded portion between the bands forming a folded frill which may be gathered upon the cord or rod, as described.

I ain aware that curtains have been made with imitation Valances and loose Valances; but I am not aware that such a lace curtain has been made with a perforated band or bands for the purposes above described.

Having thus'described my invention, what I claim is A lace curtain having a valance, C, and a cloth band, A, provided with holes B, for the insertion of -a rod or cord, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN FREDERICK FORTH.

Vitnesses:

H. W. GOUGH, JOHN HENRY GOUGH. 

